by admin | Jan 29, 2019 | General News, Immigration News, Latest News
The United States Senate and House of Representatives passed a spending measure that temporarily ended the partial government shutdown through February 15, 2019. As mentioned in previous articles, a handful of immigration functions were affected by the partial...
by admin | Jan 16, 2019 | General News, Immigration News, Latest News
The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has launched a new Online Fee Calculator to provide assistance in calculating fee amounts when filing forms with USCIS using an agency lockbox facility. A list of forms that are processed at USCIS lockbox...
by admin | Jan 16, 2019 | Bulletin, Employment Based Immigrant Visa, General News, Immigrant Visas, Immigration News, Latest News
The Department of State (DOS) has issued its February 2019 Visa Bulletin. Most notably, there were steady advancements for all priority dates. EB-1-Worldwide: China: Priority date of February 8, 2017 (Advancement of 56 days) India: ...
by admin | Jan 8, 2019 | General News, Immigration News, Latest News
As the federal shutdown continues, most immigration functions remain operational. In a previous article, we noted which functions of USCIS were affected by the shutdown. Until the U.S. Congress and President Trump reach an agreement on the unresolved portions of the...
by admin | Jan 8, 2019 | General News, Immigration News, Latest News
On January 1, 2019, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) iCERT system experienced a malfunction following an unprecedented surge in H-2B temporary labor certification filings on the first day of the program’s semi-annual filing period. After being offline for several...
by admin | Jan 3, 2019 | General News, Immigration News, Latest News
As of today, the United States is still under a partial federal government shutdown due to the fact that an fiscal year budget has not been agreed upon. However, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)’s fee-funded activities are not...
